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Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Oscar
nominee Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction, Avengers: Age of Ultron),
plays Lt. Colonel Preston Packard, the human alpha among the human
characters in Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures' Kong:
Skull Island which reimagines the origin of the mythic Kong
in a compelling, original adventure.

(Watch
the final trailer of Kong: Skull Island)

In
the film, a diverse team of explorers is brought together to venture
deep into an uncharted island in the Pacific – as beautiful as it
is treacherous – unaware that they’re crossing into the domain of
the mythic Kong.

The
battle-hardened leader of the Sky Devils helicopter squadron, which
is set to be decommissioned in the dark final days of the Vietnam
War, Packard is struggling to turn his back on a war he cannot win.
When his team is offered an assignment to lead the airborne survey of
Skull Island, he seizes the opportunity for one last mission before
rotating home with men who have become closer to him than family.

Jackson
relates, “Packard is glad that all his men are going home safe, but
seizes the opportunity for them to have one last flight together
before it’s time to go. People are saying we lost the war and he’s
saying we just abandoned it. He wants his soldiers to feel like
winners, and sees this as an opportunity for them to be heroes and
come home with some kind of victory.”

\When
the expedition reaches Skull Island, however, Packard can only watch
in horror. “Kong knocks all these helicopters out of the sky,
killing most of his men,” says Jackson. “Having left no man
behind in Vietnam, and being the warrior that he is, he is not giving
up on that fight easily. Having skin in the game and now blood on his
hands for not getting his men home, his natural enemy becomes Kong.”

“We
want to see Kong in an environment that is as big and spectacular as
he is,” says the acting legend. “We know he lives in the jungle,
but what else is in that jungle? What’s out there that allows him
to exist? Are there others or is he an anomaly? And we find out that
he was once part of a community that got wiped out by something else
that’s on that island. Now he’s the guardian that keeps those
things in check.”

Both
Packard and Kong—each in his own way—is a protector: Kong of his
home and Packard of his men, until Packard loses sight of what he’s
protecting. “At this point, he has become almost an island unto
himself,” Jackson observes. “Everyone is starting to understand
that by exacting a measure of vengeance for the people he lost, even
knowing that it risks the others not getting home, Packard is not
being the level-headed commanding officer his soldiers have come to
depend on all those years. In a rational world, and if he wasn’t so
emotionally tied to the losses he suffered, he would understand the
biological equation at play here. He still demands his pound of
flesh.”

Warner
Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures Present a Legendary Pictures
Production, Kong: Skull Island. The film will be released in the
Philippines in 2D, 3D in select theatres, and IMAX
beginning Thursday, March 9, 2017, from Warner Bros. Pictures, a
Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.